Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

My friend Susan L. Schoenbeck, MSN, RN, recently wrote about the benefits of expressing gratitude that you must read. Focusing on the good does not mean that you have to be positive all the time. Learn how to live gratefully… When my friend Mary entered hospice care...
9/11: Hurt Felt Around The World

9/11: Hurt Felt Around The World

Today marks 9/11: Hurt felt around the world with the events now etched in our minds.  I wanted to take the opportunity to share this touching piece by someone I know personally, Reverend Noel. 9/11 Call As I watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center implode...
Loss, Light, and Letting Go When Loved Ones Are Gone

Loss, Light, and Letting Go When Loved Ones Are Gone

Darkness can feel like it’s closing in when we grieve. If you’re new to grief, there’s a whole process between loss, light, and letting go when loved ones are gone. Grief is an emotional process. The rawness, fragility, utter confusion, and fatigue are part of the...
Light Helps Us Grieve

Light Helps Us Grieve

When is the best season to grieve? Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall?  Of course, no time is the best time. Especially for grieving the death of a loved one. And grief can feel like the longest day of forever. As a grief therapist, I must say summer is the best time for...
A True Man of Peace is Gone this Father’s Day

A True Man of Peace is Gone this Father’s Day

Today is Father’s Day, 2022. My own father, George Kuzma Jr. has been gone now for 25 years. I remember him with gratitude for being my guiding sage. Today is also Juneteenth. It marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865. They took control...
Facing Facebook Without Her

Facing Facebook Without Her

In this digital age, a loss is felt in many of the same ways as those centuries ago. However, we also have that added piece of no longer seeing their presence in other ways. Having recently lost my aunt, I no longer see her comments or engagement on my social media...